jeff

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[–] jeff 6 points 5 hours ago

Someone didn't read the article. She addresses exactly this.

I can already hear the trolls making jokes about women being concerned about breaking a nail. If it’s so inconvenient, why not just have short nails? Well, I’m not out here wearing long nails for fun. Being a reviewer often means acting as a part-time hand model for whatever gadget I’m testing. The Internet Nail Police has repeatedly shown up in my comments over the years if my polish is chipped or, god forbid, there’s a smudge of dirt under my natural nail.

[–] jeff 33 points 3 days ago

Now I finally understand the "both sides are the same" folks

[–] jeff 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh cool, I'll have to switch. I've been using Arc for a few months now and really like it, but would rather move away from chromium. I'd been using Firefox for years before that

[–] jeff 5 points 2 weeks ago

Damn. Good point.

[–] jeff 17 points 2 weeks ago

My favorite project was C++; it was big, it was complicated, there was a massive team working on it, I got to work with high level abstractions while occasionally dealing with really low level concerns.

It was really hard, but now writing code in every other language I've worked in has been really easy.

[–] jeff 4 points 3 weeks ago

Missionary for Mormon church enters the chat

[–] jeff 5 points 1 month ago

The Word of Wisdom, which outlines the health guidelines of not drinking alcohol and using tobacco, as well as eating less meat, eating more grains; was originally just as the name suggests, words of wisdom.

Joseph Smith drank wine, used tobacco, and drank coffee up to his death.

It wasn't until the early 20th century when it started to be treated as a commandment. This is around the time when they started codifying a lot of doctrine, stopped practicing polygamy, and started to function more like a mainstream religion and less like a cult.

Source: raised Mormon, went on mission, took religion classes at BYU-Provo on church history.

[–] jeff 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Technically it's a different cult! The same insanity; this time with guns! Woo, America!

[–] jeff 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

It's even crazier than that, duckduckgo Rod of Iron Ministries and Moonies. It's a church started by the son of a massive cult leader after his father died and there was a power struggle in the cult.

[–] jeff 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

When does something become mainstream? The Steam Deck has sold millions of units.

[–] jeff 5 points 1 month ago

But guys, if we use agile then we don't need requirements! We just make something and then the customers tell us if we are on the right track, we just get to iTeRaTe

[–] jeff 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Now we are getting into the quantum physics question of if the universe is discrete or continuous. Which seems to be unsolved.

So I guess that's my answer. If the universe is discrete then there are finite genders, and if it's continuous then there could be infinite genders.

 
 

*or other media; video, article, etc.

The Phoenix Project (and The Unicorn Project) by Gene Kim really opened my eyes up as an engineer and made me feel like I could start fixing the problems I was seeing on my team, on my project, and in my organization.

I started reading The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier and have really appreciated how straightforward and relevant it is.

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What we really mean (programming.dev)
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IMHO, it's a horrible hack that is just broken. It's obscure and we need to rewrite it because it has a bad structure. ^X^Cquit^[ESC][ESC]^C

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8 hobbits = ? (programming.dev)
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I am your Scrum Master! (files.catbox.moe)
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Help help! He's measuring my velocity!

 
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Rock Star Developer (programming.dev)
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Is that term even used anymore? Feels like it was everywhere a couple years ago.

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such a beautiful language (programming.dev)
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What software and tools do you use? (self.engineering_managers)
 

My company started using Lattice software for tracking 1 on 1s, reviews, etc. I don't really love it, but it's nice to have something that the entire company is standardizing with.

I've been using Obsidian for my personal notes before I became a manager.

And I use the M$ Suite as needed with SharePoint.

Any other tools, software, processes, that you use for the people management side?

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